Scott's Blog of Stuff

I picked up a pair of clamp-on desk lamps today from Canadian Tire for $7.99 each, along with two GE Energy Smart 26W Daylight Compact Fluor...

I've got a new project in the works. I'm going to try my hand and light box photography. There's all sorts of different DIY in...

Ever since seeing some cool examples of tilt-shift photography, it's something I've wanted to try. Thanks to the Photojojo newsle...

I picked up a cheap Mini DV Pocket Video Camera off Ebay recently for 1 cent. Ok, so the S&H was $15.99, but for the whole price, it wa...

Ever since Microsoft released the dashboard update for the Xbox 360 that allows it to read and write to USB drives, I’ve been searching fo...

New floor Originally uploaded by Twister65 This isn't a particularly interesting Project 52 photo unless you are me. But it m...

I think all of the painting, minus the baseboards and trim, is now down. Thank God. Today we tackled the entrance and the kitchen. It alwa...

Stuff I learned today during our ongoing reno: They actually sell the under-the-sink pipe elbow fittings all together for one price. Sa...

We grouted the entrance and bathroom on Thursday night and Sandra applied a few coats of grout sealer on Friday. As well on Friday, we ins...

The tiling is DONE. Sorta. All that’s left to do is the grouting and sealing. It was so awkward trying to fit my fat ass into such a small r...

Yeh, bad attempted at pipe pun. Sue me. I took Friday off work again, this time to tackle the bathroom part of the reno. All we had done u...

We lucked out and the forecasted rain did not become a reality! The entire day was spent cutting tile to fit near the walls… or around wal...

The whole day was spent mixing mortar and laying tile. We started off laying the tile without mortar to get a good idea of how they should...

We got to Home Depot at around 7:15am or so. We wanted to get there early so we had a chance to rent their $20 van to deliver our own plywoo...

When I got home from work, I decided to make sure I could shut off the water to our house. I didn’t want any surprises tomorrow when we gutt...

I don’t consider myself to be a contender for Canada’s Worst Handyman , but I am also far from being a home renovation expert. I always ge...